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Tag Archives: Osip Mandel’shtam
Myth Reading Group 1 June: Pindar and Mandelstam
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Tuesday 1 June, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join will be posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. Pindar’s Pythian Odes celebrate victors in the funeral games … Continue reading
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Tagged Athena, Greek mythology, modern/contemporary literature, music, Osip Mandel’shtam, Pindar, poetry
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Myth Reading Group – Summer Term 2021: ATHENE
Our theme for this term’s Myth Reading Group is Athene. The Myth Reading Group is open to all who have an interest in the study of myth. Meetings are held over ‘Zoom’, with texts circulated in advance. Together we read … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Athena, Greek mythology, Greek Tragedy, Minerva, Osip Mandel’shtam, Ovid, Pindar, Roberto Calasso, Roman mythology, Sophocles
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Poe and Beyond
Leon Burnett has supplied the following as a follow-up to last week’s meeting: In 1912, Osip Mandelstam wrote a poem about the reading of one of Poe’s poems. The translation is by Robert Tracy in Osip Mandelstam’s Stone (Princeton University … Continue reading
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Tagged Édouard Manet, Edgar Allan Poe, Leon Burnett, Osip Mandel’shtam
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Thursday 10 October: Europa
Myth Reading Group Thursday 10 October 2013 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.118 The text: Europa Myth and Continent (texts by Ovid, Moschus, Mandelstam, Moniza Alvi and others, assembled by Leon Burnett)
Tuesday 17 January: Persephone – Extraordinary Renditions: To Hell and Back
Myth Reading Group Tuesday 17 January 2012 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5B.330 — NOTE CHANGE OF ROOM We have three principal texts for this week… 01 Introduction by Leon Burnett (to be read first) 02 Mandel’shtam’s Persephone Poems (‘I … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, D. H. Lawrence, Demeter, Homeric Hymn, Leon Burnett, Orpheus, Osip Mandel’shtam, Persephone, poetry, Tennyson
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